Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

“Uh, Evadne, Jason already rang me up, he seemed quite upset. Comfort him a bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that you’re upset, so he’s under a lot of stress,” Arnold sighed.

“I got it.”

up, Evadne got the full picture of what had

all the blame,” Jason’s eyes were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t accept that his family had done such a thing.

today that his brother took on Elspeth’s case, he was so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s law

help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor for the conglomerate, protecting us, how could our parents have had a peaceful retirement? How could your law firm have thrived like this? Now Ms. Evadne is going after Elspeth, how can you defend

twenty years, but

dad has won so many cases for Chairman Emeric over the years, any debt of gratitude has been paid off! I’m a professional lawyer, to me, everyone is a client. If it’s a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy

stung

whole heart, but his family

really couldn’t face

are you

child, her hands on his trembling shoulders, gently shaking him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family over this. Elspeth is an insignificant baddie; how could

Jason’s voice choked, filled

I totally understand this, and

do professional things, a professional lawyer shouldn’t be swayed by social niceties. If the Abernathy group has offered Mr. Cedric a good enough deal, then Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to his professional ethics and take on

his

took Evadne’s hand, gently stroking her palm and asking, “Evadne, what’s

and George’s illegitimate daughter. But first, I need to make my enemies

where the child is, so let’s have Una

then asked, “And what about Acacia? What’s your game

before I

yawned, feeling sleepy and she also inquired, “Isn’t she about to get engaged to Thaddeus? How can we make her fall from grace

Ca**ius was deeply shocked

a while now. No matter, I’ve found myself again, and I want this lousy man to get lost

and then she had snapped. “Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I was nearly stabbed by George the other day,

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in surprise. “Really? Then you should thank

he kept his identity a mystery.

piqued as she recalled

desire for control

to her, examining the photo

his eyes lit up, and he

you really

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